pachinko
noun/pəˈt͡ʃɪŋkəʊ/
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko), from ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeic sound of the machines) + こ (ko, diminutive). Compare etymology of gacha, from Japanese ガシャポン.
- derived from パチンコ
Definitions
A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
- Two teen-age boys, after selling their personal belongings to play pachinko, sold their blood to "gamble.”
- Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
- She drizzled them in slowly and listened to the susurration of the bolts pachinkoing their way through the refrigerators and fax machines, on their way to some illegal dump.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pachinko. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA